Associate Fellow I, Engineer
Position Summary
The Associate Fellow I is a highly technical, hands-on role within the Walmart Global Tech team, responsible for supporting architectural designs and advisory across multiple enterprise business domain areas. The role uniquely drives disruptive growth across key priorities by leveraging differentiated technical prowess and leading the overall tech strategy and architecture across a business area. The right candidate would be required to delve deep into specific applications and services, work on higher-level multi-domain system designs that transcend functional boundaries, and act as a central resource. Additionally, they will be responsible for building systems, driving holistic outcomes, and curating, mentoring, and training a vibrant engineering micro-community within the team. In this role on the Global Technology Platforms team, you will provide direct support and engagement to engineering teams, improve designs, reduce complexity, and contribute to adoption of better practices and strengthened expertise. This role contributes towards larger systemic decoupling, and better shared standards. You will work to elevate the entire engineering organization and improve the overall quality, stability, and availability of our production systems.
Responsibilities
- Lead and inspire high-performing engineering teams to build and scale highly reliable, secure, and performant platform / products and frameworks.
- Drive a results-oriented culture with a strong focus on engineering excellence, execution and propagate build for scale mindset.
- Develop trusted partnerships with developers, business partners, product, and architecture leaders to drive optimized platform / product delivery.
- Lead complex technical and strategic discussions that involve multiple personas including engineering, architect, product, associate, and other stakeholders.
- Assess and leverage technology when appropriate from Global solutions existing in Walmart ecosystem to build / leverage scalable and innovative solutions.
- Build, mentor, and teach a community of engineers, and act as a central resource to provide advisory on complex projects and issues.
- Possess a high sense of urgency to solve problems and executing them with ownership.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 18 years' experience with technology/engineering focus working on large-scale and transaction intensive product/product groups in a globally distributed work environment OR 20 years' experience in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, experience with technology/engineering focus working on large-scale and transaction intensive product/product groups in a globally distributed work environment.
Skills
- Engineering experience with large scale product development in open stack and microservices delivery environment. Familiar with new technology trends.
- A technical expert with in-depth knowledge in building distributed systems and products using hybrid cloud technology handling massive amounts of data. Should have built a complex microservices based platform or product.
- Strong knowledge of the following: Packaged software releases, Open-stack technology capabilities (e.g. Python, Spark, Skala), Strong data integration capability (e.g. data engineering).
- Experience or proven ability to drive technical vision and provide technical mentorship to all levels of engineering talent.
- Must have established credibility as an advisor on complex technical issues and projects.
- Experience of working with globally distributed teams.
- Preferred experiences and exposures: Agile methodologies, Performance instrumentation, tuning, and optimization of large-scale products, Good knowledge in design patterns while building cloud-native products, Hybrid workplace domain experience will be a huge positive.
About Walmart Global Tech
Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people. That's what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We're a team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity experts and service professionals within the world's leading retailer who make an epic impact and are at the forefront of the next retail disruption. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. We are people-led and tech-empowered. We train our team in the skillsets of the future and bring in experts like you to help us grow. We have roles for those chasing their first opportunity as well as those looking for the opportunity that will define their career. Here, you can kickstart a great career in tech, gain new skills and experience for virtually every industry, or leverage your expertise to innovate at scale, impact millions and reimagine the future of retail.
Pay
The annual salary range for this position is $288,000.00 - $546,000.00. Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses. Additional compensation for certain positions may also include stock.
Schedule
Flexible, hybrid work: We use a hybrid way of working with primary in office presence coupled with an optimal mix of virtual presence. We use our campuses to collaborate and be together in person, as business needs require and for development and networking opportunities. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team, and be more flexible in our personal lives.
Benefits
- Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance.
- Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage.
- Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance.
- Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting.
- Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.
- Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.